so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

A miserable collection of little secrets, that's all any of us is.

It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

It was a relationship with occasional moments of beauty, but one that had never found it's balance.